{"id":266445,"date":"2026-04-14T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266445\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:48:07","slug":"the562-orgs-athletes-of-the-week-the562-org-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266445\/","title":{"rendered":"The562.org\u2019s Athletes of the Week \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The562\u2019s Athletes of the Week is sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the562.org\/2022\/03\/23\/the-century-club-sponsors-the562-orgs-athletes-of-the-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach Century Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week and thanks to the Long Beach Century Club and Naples Rib Company for their support.<\/p>\n<p>HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n<p>Lynnox Newton, Long Beach Poly Track &amp; Field<\/p>\n<p>Lynnox Newton had a big day representing the Jackrabbits at the Arcadia Invitational. Newton competed in a pair of hurdle events on Friday, winning the seeded 110m hurdles with a 13.88.<\/p>\n<p>Clara Adams, Wilson Track &amp; Field<\/p>\n<p>The Wilson Bruins also competed at the Arcadia Invitational. Clara Adams finished in first for the 400m with a time of 53.51.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Lopez, Jordan Baseball<\/p>\n<p>Julian Lopez has been an offensive powerhouse for the Jordan Panthers. The sophomore hit three home runs in a doubleheader at Avalon last week, leading the Panthers to a 26-0 combined-score sweep and seven RBIs in these games.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Ruiz, Compton Baseball<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Ruiz did it all for the Compton Tarbabes on the diamond. Ruiz had three RBIs on two hits last week and pitched a complete game against Port of Los Angeles, going all seven innings and only allowing two hits while tallying up nine strikeouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>COLLEGE<\/p>\n<p>Kaiden Smaka, Long Beach State Baseball<\/p>\n<p>Kaiden Smaka delivered the walk-off hit for the Dirtbags against Cal State Fullerton on Saturday night. In the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded, Smaka smacked a ball to left-center to win the game 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>Lina Apodaca, Long Beach State Softball<\/p>\n<p>Line Apodaca had a monster weekend for Long Beach State this weekend against UC Santa Barbara. Apodaca went 7-for-11 at the plate against the Gauchos with four RBIs in the series sweep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The562\u2019s Athletes of the Week is sponsored by the Long Beach Century Club. Congratulations to our Athletes of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-266445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}